The Moscow Metro was first opened in 1935 under Stalin’s Soviet Union, with a single 11km line serving 13 stations. In the eight decades that have followed, the metro system has been expanded to ...

In Soviet times, dogs were barred from Moscow's metro. Today, however, they are so common there -- curling up on empty seats, nuzzling their neighbors, lounging in stations -- that there is even a ...

Moskovsky Metropoliten opened in 1935, offering one train line and 13 stations. By 2017, the system ballooned to 229 stations connected by 14 lines. Today there are 215 miles of track, making it ...

The range of activities is more limited these days, but still pretty amazing. On May 15, the 80th anniversary of the Moscow Metro, we present a selection of 15 things you can do there.

Rather than chasing the dogs away, metro workers fed them. Riders, too, were kind: if a tired dog fell asleep in the middle of a marble station, people walked around the animal to avoid waking him.

On May 15, 1935, a bold new chapter in Moscow’s history began underground. The city unveiled its first metro line — just 11.5 kilometres long, with 13 stations connecting Sokolniki to Park ...

We can all aspire to better ourselves during our commutes, but it’s so easy to get distracted by the fun things on our phones that are not bleak Russian novels. Moscow, however, is making a ...

At the beginning of the 20th century, Moscow started building a railway to the Latvian city of Vindava (now called Ventspils), a port on the Baltic Sea. Podmoskovnaya opened in 1901 and was the ...

It is planned to build and open 39 metro stations in Moscow. This was announced by the Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Urban Planning Policy and Construction Andrey Bochkarev. "Currently, about 35 ...

There are currently 19 more stations at the design stage. In almost 14 years, 119 metro stations have been built and reconstructed in Moscow. Among them is the "Potapovo" Sokolnicheskaya line, which ...